Asking Coca-Cola About Coca Has Never Been Easy

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In “A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola,” published by Akashic Books in December, Ricardo Cortés shares, in illustrated form, the fruit of six years’ worth of research into the connection between Coca-Cola and the coca leaf of South America.

Cortés is the illustrator of the No. 1 New York Times Best Seller Go the F—- to Sleep, also published by Akashic Books.

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